Combined car-door lock and sealing device.



No. 806,784.v PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905. W. H. BEAVER, O. B. THOMPSON, J. H. THOMPSON; O. KREITZBR & R. W. BEAVER. COMBINED OAR DOOR LOOK AND SEALING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30. 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

WALTER H. DEAVER, CARL B. THOMPSON, JOHN H. THOMPSON, OHARLS KREITZER, AND RICHARD W.

DEAVER, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

COMBINED CAR-DOOR LOCK AND S EALING DEVICE.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER H. DEAVER, CARL B. THOMPSON, JOHN H. THOMPSON, CHARLS KREITZER, and RICHARD W. DEAVER, citizens of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Car-Lock and Sealing Device; and We do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to new and useful improvements in car-door locks and sealing devices, and is an improvement of the lock and sealing device shown and described in United States Letters Patent granted to ourselves May 3, 1904, No. 759,079.

The objects of the present improvements are, first, to provide a car-lock and sealing device in which the car cannot be looked after it is sealed, but must be first locked and then sealed, and, secondly, to provide means for temporarily looking a car after the seal has been broken. This is often rendered necessary on the part of a consignee after a loaded car has been turned over to him and is left loaded on a side track by said consignee. In many cases a car can only be partly unloaded before nightfall, and it becomes necessary to secure the contents of the car over night. It is thus obvious that the car should be locked by means in possession of the consignee. This is accomplished in the present instance by an ordinary shackle-lock or padlock Preceding a more detail description of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a car having our improved lock and sealing device applied; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the lock and sealing. device onthe line x as of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents front and edge views, respectively, of the outer plate of the lock-casing. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of the locking and sealing frame. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the hasp detached.

In a detail description of the invention similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

1 designates the side of an ordinary box-car equipped with the usual sliding door 1, which is suspended upon a track 1. The side of the car at a suitable point adjacent to the door is provided with a suitable recess 2 for the reception of the inner member or plate 3 of the lock-casing. The inner plate 3, together with the outer plate 4, provides the casing which receives and conceals the lock mechanism. The parts of this casing are secured rigidly in position by means of bolts 5,

which are fitted with nuts 5, which lie on the inner side of the car. The outer plate 4 is provided with openings 6 and 7, to be again referred to, and projecting from the opposite sides of the opening 7 at right angles to the plate 4 are walls 8 8, having apertures 9 and 10, to be again referred to.

11 designates a rectangular slide-frame, which is mounted in the loclccasingand has a bolt 12 projected therefrom, which is engaged by the opening 16 in the hasp 17 and is held in its lower position when said hasp is inserted through the opening 6. Projecting from the top of said frame 11 and at right angles is a sealing tongue 13, which has an aperture 14. When said frame 1 1 is in its lower or locked position, as in Fig. 2, the aperture 14 in said tongue registers with the apertures 9 in the Walls 8 of the outer plate 4, and in this position the sealing-strip 15 is passed through said apertures 9 and 14, and the car is sealed. The hasp 17 must first, however, engage the bolt 12 before the seal is made. Otherwise the car could not be locked. In order to lock the car after the seal has been removed, the ordinary padlock may be conveniently employed in connection with the openings 10 in the side walls 8 8. These openings lie immediately above the tongue 13, and the shackle of the padlock is passed through said openings 10, and when in position the framell is locked in its lower position and is prevented from being moved upward to release the hasp 17. This doublelock feature of the device is useful as a means for locking partly-unloaded cars after they have been turned over to the consignee and after the car has been unlocked by the company and seal broken.

The operation of locking and sealing a car is as follows: The frame 11 is elevated by the fingers engaging the exposed end of tongue 13. The hasp 17 is then placed in position and said frame 11 is permitted to drop and the bolt 12 enters the opening 16 in the hasp. The sealing-strip 15 is then inserted through the apertures 14 and 9-, as before indicated.

Having described our invention,' we claim In a combined lock and sealing device for freight-cars, a slidable frame having a locking-bolt rojected therefrom, and an apertured sea ing-tongue projected at right angles to said bolt, a hasp having an opening therein adapted to receive said locking -bolt, in combination with a casing, the rearward wall of which has an opening for the reception of said hasp, and a further opening through which the sealing-tongue projects, said last- R. J. MOOARTY, JOHN W. MCKEOWN. 

